SOSC 4735 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Theory, Demographic Transition, Grounded Theory
24 Sep 2018
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Population growth does not go down but up always going up. The majority of the global population live in urban areas. 10000 before the birth of christ, there were 6 million people in the world. By the time christ was born, there were 250 million people in the world. By 1750, this figure has increased to 750 million people. Economic opportunities + other factors in rural areas move to cities where bulk of industries are located. This come with its own challenges urban theorist try to unravel. Ideas about the theories generally stated in the form of theory. A theory is a tentative explanation of some expect of social life that states how and why certain facts are related. Once theories urban researchers can then conduct research. It against this backdrop that theories are said to be tentative. Research is the process of carefully observing social reality to access the validity of theory.
